I make the smoke I exhale from a cigarette available to the whole world, but that is extremely limited in many places how I do that. Are you telling me I should be able to do that?
The thing is that DNA is not only giving information about you. It gives information about your relatives as well. And yes, I am very well aware of the situation. This person is a relative of mine and she has open sourced her body and DNA. I even had to sign papers that allowed them to post the results after she had died, regardless of the fact that she had stated that that was to be done.
And that was for actual scientific research,
So yes, I am for it that you need to have consent from the people who are affected.
The issue here is that information that is put there by others (family members) will be knowledge about you as well. Extreme example. If your parents, your kids and your twin brother all give their DNS and you do not, they can still track you down because of it after they found your DNA on a crime scene.
Even if they know you did not do it and they do not even investigate you any further, you are now in the database.
It seems that Ted Kaczynski was right about the erosion of human freedom and dignity by modern technologies that require large-scale organization. (Does not mean that how he reacted was ok.)
Neither did I, but then things change. I got mine 2 years ago. Could well be that it is now a requirement. They also have an RFID chip in the passport I have, so I made a holder of tinfoil and duckttape.
Try searching for "Lanny Barbie" a porn actress on google image search. A while back you would see her nipples. Google already censors in the US (and everywhere else).
For thjose that say it is not done by a governement: Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient" as determined by a governmentor private institution.
Somebody does not look exactely like her passport photo? I am shocked.
I looked at the article, but could not find the two images. I assume they look somewhat similar. U know people who photoshopped their pasport photo. So are they guilty as well?
This is seriously a non-story. So it is not her, it is a representation of her and it looked good enough.
Here how I get my passporrt photo. I go to a photographer that taked a picture digitally, changes the background, as I need a different one than the photobooth have, print it out so it can be scanned.
Why not have a digital camera and do it all in one swoop?
You have very valid points, but you overlooked one thing.
Where you said to go that having a physical reference with a keyboard once your fingers are there is easy. A touchscreen does not have that difference. So there is not a default position to go to. If I put my hands on the keyboard, I will know where the keys are without looking.
So if there is a "keyboard" where the screen is, I can go in the general direction and know where I am. With old car radios, the radio could be under the chair for all I cared. No need to look. With what we have now, I MUST look or glance.
One way to prevent it is to limit the amount of data that you can keep. A good start would be credit cards. Most companies will not handle the transaction themselves. So they should not be allowed to have, let alone keep the credit card number. I could go even as far as saying that if you handle the credit card payments, you should not be allowed to sell anything. So if you go to a store (be it online or otherwise) the transaction is handled by a third party.
The CC merchant should only see the amount and other things that are relevant for the transaction, but not what you bought. The store will see if the payment was successful and should never see the card number. Most of this is already in place.
There is a lot of other information companies do not need to know to deliver the service or goods.
The second and even bigger thing to solve or at least reduce leaks is accountability. Europe started doing something about it. The thing is that GDPR is about the limitation of sharing information. That means company A can not just give or sell customer information to company B.
For an advertising company like Google, this is not a real issue, as they can keep the information in-house and still make a lot of money. If you are in the business of selling the user data, you have an issue.
In Belgium if there is a clear Employer employee situation, the contractors are actually enployees. That goes for a lot of (IT) contractors. Uber and friends try to add a third group here.
I have a domainname. Why would I be forced to use https://toaster.example.com/ when I browse to my Linux toaster, when just typing 'toaster'? It is in no way connected to the internet.
Or try the domain hackme.houghi.org and see how that is connected. Excluding local IP addresses should be standard.
As a kid (just like any kid) I asked why. Why is the sky blue. Why is water wet. I never stopped asking that question. The reason has changed. At work I ask it, so I can figure out a way to make it easier for them AND for me. For reporting it is nice to know if they want to increase or decrease FTE count. That way I can dig up extra information that can come in handy and/or present the same numbers in a different way.
For a website it is good to know if they want more or less contacts. Having asked these questions a lot, they will know to expect them and understand that answering them will be benefitial for both.
Now if you only look at what was asked and do only that, you will not only create a "do as I expect, not as I say" mentelaty, you will have no say in the matter and need to clean up a lot of shit afterwards.
Do if you start asking the question 'why' now, you are several decades to late.
And yes, more than once I have save the company a shitload of money. Also: not all companies work that way. Draw yoru own conclusions in that case.
In Belgium the Unique Identifier is your National Number. Not used for identification, but used once the person is identified.
Many companies use it to link e.g. accounts to a person. Be it bank accounts, or you phonenumber or your loyalty card.
It is the birthday backwards, three numbers, based on when it was enterered into the system and 2 control numbers. So if you are the first who was written in the system to be born on October 8th 2018, it would be 2018108-001-XX To lazy to look uip the controlnumber. The controlnumber will also identify the gender.
I Spain you also have a nationbal number. For foreighners you need it to e.g. buy a house, even if you do not live there. There it is called an N.I.E. I assume France has something similar.
So not anything special and not only for police. And no, it is NOT used to identify you. It is used once you ARE identified.
The call will most likely not go to an agent. It will however be some random number that cpuld be occupied a lot, if it is even programmed to take calls. Most agents do not have their own number.
Working with Credit Cards and never needing to see the card number, let alone the PIN number, you would be amazed how many people hand put that info without being asked.
And I mean by email orjust over the phone. "Hello, my cardnumer is.... and my PIN is...." Callagents are trained to interupt people. Emails are scanned for cardnumbers.
This even happens when they come from banks. And then there is the number of people who hand over card and code to somebody else. If that is found out, all risk is for the customer. (No, not even touyou spouse. Getthem their own card)
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I make the smoke I exhale from a cigarette available to the whole world, but that is extremely limited in many places how I do that. Are you telling me I should be able to do that?
The thing is that DNA is not only giving information about you. It gives information about your relatives as well. And yes, I am very well aware of the situation. This person is a relative of mine and she has open sourced her body and DNA. I even had to sign papers that allowed them to post the results after she had died, regardless of the fact that she had stated that that was to be done.
And that was for actual scientific research,
So yes, I am for it that you need to have consent from the people who are affected.
The issue here is that information that is put there by others (family members) will be knowledge about you as well. Extreme example. If your parents, your kids and your twin brother all give their DNS and you do not, they can still track you down because of it after they found your DNA on a crime scene.
Even if they know you did not do it and they do not even investigate you any further, you are now in the database.
It seems that Ted Kaczynski was right about the erosion of human freedom and dignity by modern technologies that require large-scale organization. (Does not mean that how he reacted was ok.)
Legally absolutely not. Morally, absolutely. Mentioning your sources is just a good thing to do. All the rest would be OK.
Obviously not only Amazon is guilty of this. Almost everybody is (including myself).
If you want my advice, nothing.
What about a photoshopped image?
Neither did I, but then things change. I got mine 2 years ago. Could well be that it is now a requirement. They also have an RFID chip in the passport I have, so I made a holder of tinfoil and duckttape.
Try searching for "Lanny Barbie" a porn actress on google image search. A while back you would see her nipples. Google already censors in the US (and everywhere else).
For thjose that say it is not done by a governement:
Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient" as determined by a governmentor private institution.
Somebody does not look exactely like her passport photo? I am shocked.
I looked at the article, but could not find the two images. I assume they look somewhat similar. U know people who photoshopped their pasport photo. So are they guilty as well?
This is seriously a non-story. So it is not her, it is a representation of her and it looked good enough.
Here how I get my passporrt photo. I go to a photographer that taked a picture digitally, changes the background, as I need a different one than the photobooth have, print it out so it can be scanned.
Why not have a digital camera and do it all in one swoop?
So he did not pay 1200USD and he then also did not pay 700USD for an account that might or might nit be his. Why not lower the price to10 cents?
I once did not oay for stolen goods
This is loke running after a bus to save money, which is stupid. Better run after a taxi and save more.
Oh and I once offered 50 fEUR or a new car radio. All I had to do was pay upfront and they would get it.
You have very valid points, but you overlooked one thing.
Where you said to go that having a physical reference with a keyboard once your fingers are there is easy.
A touchscreen does not have that difference. So there is not a default position to go to. If I put my hands on the keyboard, I will know where the keys are without looking.
So if there is a "keyboard" where the screen is, I can go in the general direction and know where I am.
With old car radios, the radio could be under the chair for all I cared. No need to look. With what we have now, I MUST look or glance.
I thought this was public knowledge when the raped DejaNews.
One way to prevent it is to limit the amount of data that you can keep. A good start would be credit cards. Most companies will not handle the transaction themselves. So they should not be allowed to have, let alone keep the credit card number.
I could go even as far as saying that if you handle the credit card payments, you should not be allowed to sell anything.
So if you go to a store (be it online or otherwise) the transaction is handled by a third party.
The CC merchant should only see the amount and other things that are relevant for the transaction, but not what you bought. The store will see if the payment was successful and should never see the card number. Most of this is already in place.
There is a lot of other information companies do not need to know to deliver the service or goods.
The second and even bigger thing to solve or at least reduce leaks is accountability. Europe started doing something about it. The thing is that GDPR is about the limitation of sharing information. That means company A can not just give or sell customer information to company B.
For an advertising company like Google, this is not a real issue, as they can keep the information in-house and still make a lot of money. If you are in the business of selling the user data, you have an issue.
Yeah, because in the US the police has no access to the information. /s
In Belgium if there is a clear Employer employee situation, the contractors are actually enployees. That goes for a lot of (IT) contractors.
Uber and friends try to add a third group here.
I have a domainname. Why would I be forced to use https://toaster.example.com/ when I browse to my Linux toaster, when just typing 'toaster'?
It is in no way connected to the internet.
Or try the domain hackme.houghi.org and see how that is connected. Excluding local IP addresses should be standard.
The Europeans didn'tvote for Hillary or sanders, sooo ....
As the earth is not a sentinent being, I doubt it will care if we blow it up from space.
As a kid (just like any kid) I asked why. Why is the sky blue. Why is water wet.
I never stopped asking that question. The reason has changed. At work I ask it, so I can figure out a way to make it easier for them AND for me.
For reporting it is nice to know if they want to increase or decrease FTE count. That way I can dig up extra information that can come in handy and/or present the same numbers in a different way.
For a website it is good to know if they want more or less contacts. Having asked these questions a lot, they will know to expect them and understand that answering them will be benefitial for both.
Now if you only look at what was asked and do only that, you will not only create a "do as I expect, not as I say" mentelaty, you will have no say in the matter and need to clean up a lot of shit afterwards.
Do if you start asking the question 'why' now, you are several decades to late.
And yes, more than once I have save the company a shitload of money. Also: not all companies work that way. Draw yoru own conclusions in that case.
You have a family. Your son watches porn.
In Belgium the Unique Identifier is your National Number. Not used for identification, but used once the person is identified.
Many companies use it to link e.g. accounts to a person. Be it bank accounts, or you phonenumber or your loyalty card.
It is the birthday backwards, three numbers, based on when it was enterered into the system and 2 control numbers.
So if you are the first who was written in the system to be born on October 8th 2018, it would be 2018108-001-XX To lazy to look uip the controlnumber. The controlnumber will also identify the gender.
I Spain you also have a nationbal number. For foreighners you need it to e.g. buy a house, even if you do not live there. There it is called an N.I.E. I assume France has something similar.
So not anything special and not only for police. And no, it is NOT used to identify you. It is used once you ARE identified.
The call will most likely not go to an agent. It will however be some random number that cpuld be occupied a lot, if it is even programmed to take calls. Most agents do not have their own number.
Working with Credit Cards and never needing to see the card number, let alone the PIN number, you would be amazed how many people hand put that info without being asked.
And I mean by email orjust over the phone. "Hello, my cardnumer is .... and my PIN is ...." Callagents are trained to interupt people. Emails are scanned for cardnumbers.
This even happens when they come from banks. And then there is the number of people who hand over card and code to somebody else. If that is found out, all risk is for the customer. (No, not even touyou spouse. Getthem their own card)
In Belgium you would still need to make sure you are talking to the right person. Otherwise you could be liable to give out personal information.
That is why, where I work, automated systems will just ask you to call, not even saying the reason, just the company name.
We even do not say a reason on an answering machine, if the full name of the person was not said. The number could be owned by somebody else.
Hatred about changes is not enough. Just look at Google and Mucrosoft.